By Richard Trzupek | The Epoch Times | November 1, 2019 According to the official, widely reported story, Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) shut down substantial portions of its electric transmission system in northern California as a precautionary measure. Citing high wind speeds they described as “historic,” the utility claims that if they didn’t turn […]
Transforming the world's energy system is a vast undertaking. Of colossal proportions.
Germany has spent a ton of money. The result? Its previously robust electricity grid is now broken.
A system worried about global warming and the health impacts of air pollution should stop aiding companies that produce those public threats, writes Niklas Hagelberg. By Niklas Hagelberg in NAIROBI, Kenya Inter Press Service Fossil fuels — oil, gas, coal…Read more →
How many birds should we slaughter in the name of saving the planet?
California's infrastructure will devolve to 3rd-world level: blackouts will be common. The analyst believes that the goal is to collapse the state into bankruptcy. This will be classified as a humanitarian crisis, and the rest of the country will be on the hook for its bailout. [...]
A new book put together by the former Chairman of Europe’s largest solar company, Lightsource – which merged with BP last year – throws light on how the world will be permanently transformed by an energy revolution in coming decades.
The study’s key finding is that the widespread adoption of renewable energy technologies could usher in a new electricity paradigm associated with a more advanced clean, industrial economy. The core ingredients for this paradigm will take off rapidly after 2050, it says.
